Shindler v. State

This is an appeal by defendants-appellants, Helen Hunter and Jack Shindler, from their convictions for conspiracy to commit the felony 1 of exerting unauthorized control over the property of another. 2

FACTS:

Viewed most favorably to the State, the pertinent facts reveal that Stanley D. Milhous (Milhous), the alleged victim of the conspiracy, was approximately eighty (80) years old when the sequence of events culminating in this appeal began. Milhous lived alone on the remainder of a family farm, and also owned, by inheritance from a deceased spouse, farmland in North Dakota and a house in…